About Roberta
Roberta Gomes is a PACFA counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and major life changes. She speaks English and Portuguese and offers sessions remotely across Australia. Roberta aims to make first steps feel manageable and straightforward for worried parents and adults alike.
Roberta uses a client-centred way of working. She listens first and helps people set clear, practical goals. Sessions focus on what is most pressing, such as sleep problems, mood swings, grief or relationship strain.
Background and approach
She adapts pacing to each person’s needs. Her work draws on somatic tools that connect bodily experience to feelings and thinking. Roberta also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
She brings skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy when emotion regulation is needed. Roberta has three years of clinical experience and supports people facing trauma, depression, bipolar presentations, grief, addiction and compassion fatigue. She also helps with attention difficulties, chronic pain and complex family dynamics.
Her focus includes issues like attachment wounds, codependency and communication problems. People who choose Roberta can expect thoughtful listening, clear explanations and practical strategies to try between sessions. She works collaboratively to build coping skills, improve sleep and reduce harmful patterns.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling the first appointment.
How somatic work and evidence-based therapies translate online
Somatic work focuses on the link between the body and emotion. Online sessions can include body awareness, breathing practices and guided movement to notice bodily signals related to stress or trauma. These practices help people regulate their nervous system and manage intense feelings.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages noticing thoughts without judgement and clarifying personal values. Online ACT exercises often use mindfulness practices and small behavioural experiments to build more meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the interaction between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses straightforward techniques to test unhelpful beliefs and try new responses.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to choose which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. They adapt tools and pacing so people can practise skills between sessions and track what helps.
Online therapy by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility and easier access for busy households. These formats make it simpler to schedule sessions around family and work, try shorter check-ins, or use written exchange for ongoing support. Appropriately qualified or registered professionals can still provide structured, evidence-informed help through these channels.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Portuguese